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Eion Stevens – Telling Stories

In April, Chambers Gallery in Sydenham opens an exhibition of paintings by Eion Stevens (1952 – 2021). It is the first in a long-term commitment to the exhibition and sale of paintings from his estate that will contribute to supporting Women’s Refuge. (The artist gave serious consideration to questions around his work, contacting...
Henry Turner and A.P.G.A at City Art Depot

Henry Turner illuminates and confounds expectations in an interview with Warren Feeney in a discussion about his new work. WF: What does A.P.G.A mean? HT: I found it as the title of a French café song from 1900, Chanson de l’A.P.G.A, but the only A.P.G.A I’ve found seems to be a plumber’s union in Cleveland, which I...
CoCA Toi Moroki and Objectspace

Despite the radically different media respective involved, both Judy Darragh: Competitive Plastics and Tender Brick: The Material Epiphanies of Peter Hawkesby have a common spirit in their rejection of convention and their radical experimentation with plasticity and form. Darragh’s irrepressibly playful arrangements and semiotic...
Francis Upritchard- I’m Your Fan

The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū’s s announcement of an exhibition of new works by Francis Upritchard Paper, Creature, Stone, is a welcome surprise for all who are familiar with her work. If any artist from Aotearoa has, what could be described as a dedicated fan base, it is Francis Upritchard. Look no further...
Pressing the Pause Button- Oxford Gallery toi o Waimakariri

Oxford Gallery toi o Waimakariri has made the decision to temporarily close the gallery and its current exhibition, Philip Trusttum’s What have we got here, until the end of Easter. The decision is centred around both Omicron and the opportunity to review the North Canterbury gallery’s commitment to the communities that it...
Padraic Ryan, Chloe Summerhayes and Sam Walker

Padraic Ryan, Chloe Summerhayes and Sam Walker each explore a preoccupation with place, perspective, and process, conjuring deeply personal emotive atmospheres in distinct painting practices at Chambers Art Gallery. From preliminary studies, Chloe Summerhayes creates absorptive negatives in expressive abstract mark making. By turns accumulative...
Homefire

You wouldn't light a fireplace for anything other than cooking in the South of Thailand where my mama is from. I don’t know if it’s different in the North where Sorawit Songsataya remembers, I hear it’s colder there. In Bangkok, in winter (28°C) people wear puffer jackets and hats—it’s not uncommon to see dogs dressed in...
Liam Krijgsman, More Than This

Liam Krijgsman has led us in with a vision- A low stakes vision: Sizzlers at a monumental scale. These symbols of wartime sensibilities rebranded with a 90s flair. Sizzlers -the notorious little bastards- cannot even be regarded as sausages because their content is less than 45 per cent meat. Rotating on a slick steel machine which reminds...
The Central Art Gallery is 5

The Central Art Gallery opened in 2017, its founding director Richard Laing and co-director Jonathan Smart ambitious to make a commitment to establishing a contemporary gallery that acknowledged the notable history of the Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora and its former life as Canterbury College (1873 – 1961). Both were aware of its...
Art in the Park in Greymouth

In the last weekend of April, Greymouth is hosting Art in the Park, an annual arts event that brings together more than forty artists representing a range of disciplines; painting, sculpture, jade, digital media, textiles and more. Overseeing this annual event over the past fifteen years is Gary Hopkinson, chair of Art in the Park...
Judy Darragh and things that sit, droop, bundle or wrap at COCA Toi Moroki

Sculptor and forager of consumer waste, artist Judy Darragh is exhibiting in Ōtautahi at CoCA Toi Moroki from late February until early May, the perverse title of her gallery installation, Competitive Plastics, on first encounter seeming to touch upon the idea that those throwaway plastic objects in the days of our lives are at war and...
Flare Festival Lights Up

The time between submission and publication of writing can be tricky, so by the time you read this the Flare Street Art Festival will either be mid-flight, with artists working their magic on a selection of walls, or the bow will be tied, and we will have a collection of freshly completed blockbuster murals to enjoy. As Ōtautahi’s...
Mercury Tower- Artist-Run Space Opens with a Retrospective

2020 - 2021 could be the moment in which artist-run spaces in Ōtautahi rediscovered themselves in the central city, their origins in the High Street Project in 1992, followed by twenty artist-run spaces since, the most recent including the opening of Hot Lunch and The Den, also on High Street. Mercury Tower is one more unanticipated addition...
Louise Palmer- Naming as a Way of Claiming Histories

Senior lecturer in sculpture at the University Of Canterbury School Of Fine Arts, Louise Palmer has recently completed a new series of drawings and cast objects as the recipient of the 2020 Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara. Palmer’s plans for the Award were outlined and framed within the context of her practice, drawing from...
The Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara 2022

Ana Iti (Te Rarawa and Pākehā) is the 2022 recipient of the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara. Her plans comprise the publication of a print-run artist’s book that features hand-printed artwork, text and commissioned writing that has its origins in a trio of videos produced over 2020-21, exploring the role of printmaking and...